The fellowship, which is awarded to individuals who show “exceptional creativity in their work,” comes with an $800,000 stipend, distributed over five years.
“When I received the phone call from the Foundation, I thought they were going to ask me to do some consulting work,” said Choi in a. “My heart almost stopped beating when I heard ‘congratulations’ instead. This is such a great honor because there have been only two other researchers in the natural language processing field who have received this award.”
Candidates for the fellowship are nominated anonymously by leaders in their field. The foundation says it receives approximately 2,000 nominations each year.
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